Your employer can never pay you back the valuable hours you invest in them! So, they compensate you with the value of your hours, providing you with monetary value in the form of currency.
But they have to report that compensation in Box 1 of Form W2, as Taxable Income.
Well, compensation is NOT gain.
The income tax is a tax on gain.
Millions of people just go on year after year just letting this fact slip by them.
What is to be done?
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